New methods for mobility performance measurement in wheelchair basketball

New methods for mobility performance measurement in wheelchair basketball

van der Slikke, R.M.A. (TU Delft Biomechatronics & Human-Machine Control; The Hague University of Applied Sciences)
Berger, MAM (The Hague University of Applied Sciences)
Bregman, DJJ (TU Delft Research Funding National)
Veeger, H.E.J. (TU Delft Biomechanical Engineering; TU Delft Biomechatronics & Human-Machine Control; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Biomechanical Engineering

2016

Increased professionalism in wheelchair sports demand a more precise and quantitative measure of individual wheelchair mobility performance, to allow it to be an evaluation measure of wheelchair setting or training optimization. This research describes the application of an inertial sensor based method for measuring wheelchair kinematics and a factor analysis based selection of outcomes best describing wheelchair mobility performance. This set of kinematic outcomes was analysed for sensitivity towards wheelchair performance differences due to competition level and classification of the match data of 29 wheelchair basketball athletes. The method proved sensitive and is believed to provide a solid basis for a kinematics based definition of wheelchair mobility performance in sports.

Inertial Measurement Unit
Wheelchair Sports
Wheelchair Performance

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International Society of Biomechanics in Sports, Konstanz, Germany

ISBS - Conference Proceedings Archive: 34rd International Conference on Biomechanics in Sports, 34

34th International Conference of Biomechanics in Sports, 2016-07-18 → 2016-07-22, Tsukuba, Japan

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conference paper

© 2016 R.M.A. van der Slikke, MAM Berger, DJJ Bregman, H.E.J. Veeger